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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

first he could hardly realize the pleas
ure, the surprise and wonder OF it was
SO great Harry gave him some fruit.
and told him there were whole trees OF
it where he was going.
Have you never been in the coun-
tryp'' asked Harry's mamma.
s.No' m; but heard mamma tell
bout it. She lived there once. an
she says she wishes we could live
there now.
.sCan you writer asked larry,
"cause want to hear how you get
there, an how you like every thing.
81 kin write some. Nanny teaches
| us nights, but can't spell nothin' ex-
| try
ooh, don't care how it's spelled.
1 want to know every thing you do.
an how you feel. / hope you'll get
real well?'
A week after there came a letter
from Aunt Sarah. inclosing the fol-
| lowing:
DEER FREND-Mis Grigs sed mite rite to
you send it in with hern. shoes a good lady
| good as nagel CESS, she sed mite call her
| ant Sary but amt dast to yet. don't CON
neer so bad an eat o site OF things, 1t don't
make no difference cos there's sech heeps OF
things to eat all the time I never seen SO
much, go in the lots with Mr.. Grigs. he's nice
too, there's so much room out here an nobody
in it It's arful still, go berry picken too
there's heep of EN- and feed the chickens an
gese sometimes wrote to ma about it, you
was orful good to think of me comm wen you
cudent must close good by
Yure friend John Lancy
And so the vacation passed, bring
ing joy and health to the sick boy.
while Harry had been learning les
sons of patience and self-denial, and
felt the blessedness of ministering to
others, and many weary hour OF
pain has been beguiled by his interest
in his substitute. -Lillian Grey, in N
Y Examiner
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
DANGERS OF BENZINE.
Why the Utmost Care Should Be Exer-
cised in Handling 1t.

why the Utmost Care Should Be Exer-
cised in Handling 1t.
Some weeks ago in a Philadelphia
music printing establishment, while a
boy was engaged in cleaning a press
with benzine, rubbing it with a rag,
the fluid blazed up; the lads clothing
caught fire, and he was so severely
burned that his recovery was stated to
supposed that flame, or at least tenn
perature equal to the white OR red heat
of iron, was necessary to ignite ben
zine, but this is mistake. 1t is
fact little known that hard friction
can develop sufficient heat to
inflame benzine vapor. especially
if the surface rubbed be vanished
with shellac. We are informed by
competent and truthful mechanical en-
gineer that few years ago (while try
ing with benzine in closed tin vessel
to construct thermostat to ignite
powder giving out sulphurous gas in
case of fire outbreak, he found that
the vapor was leaking from minute
crack in seam. He requested tin
man to solder the leak, supposing that
copper soldering tool at dark heat
would nor be dangerous. To his sur
prise and that of the workman, the
vapor ignited. with blue flame, as
soon as the tool approached near the
crack and flame played around the
tool like will-o'-the-wisp. This gem
tleman several times experimental
afterward and found that at dark
heat the tool did not infiame the
vapor when at a distance of twelve
inches from the crack. but did always
set fire to it if within six to four
inches. No matter how small the
crevice, there always came out
enough vapor to ignite at this low de-
gree of temperature. In these trials,
as in the first instance, the tin-man's
furnace was kept at considerable
distance. We mentioned a few months
since case in which this vapor was
ignited by electricity generated in
rubbing flannel garment, which was
being cleaned in tub of the fluid.
This last occurrence once more en-
phasizes the need of the utmost cau-
ton in the handling of benzine in the
securing and furniture establishments
| and printing offices, in which it is so
generally and extensively made use
| Of Fire and Water.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

ing. hunting or gathering bamboo.
The evening is passed at home. At
about eight o'clock the only other
meal OF the day is partaken Of Their
dress resembles that of the Anamites.
The women here, like those of most
other wild tribes, are the real la
borers. They pound and gather in
the rice, bring firewood from the
mountains, spin cotton, make cloth.
prepare the meals, and. in word. do
almost all that is to be done.-Popular
Science Monthly.
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EXCESSIVE COLD.
Suggestions Concerning the Thawins Out
of Persons Exposed to 1t.

Suggestions Concerning the Thawing Out
of Persons Exposed to 1t.
Many persons have the idea that life
is endangered only. if the patient be
brought too suddenly from the cold
into warm place. They believe that,
if one proceed very carefully and
slowly with the warming. the cold can
never produce lasting injury to the
system. There is certainly no doubt
that sudden warming is very danger
Gus, and that great deal depends
upon the right treatment of the frozen
limb. Experience shows that, while
in such manner that they are COM
pletely restored, others are less fortu-
nate, and suffer frequently in after
years. But one must admit that in
tense cold alone, without being fol.
lowed by sudden warming, which
proves so disastrous, suffices to cause
severe suffering. In this respect,
great deal depends on the nature Of
the person. If very sudden transit
tions from heat to cold and from cold
to heat be avoided, healthy person
can withstand intense cold with
out serious consequences, espe-
cially if he be mentally
active, energetic and muscular,
and has sound heart-that is. if his
pulse be regular and strong. A robust
person can withstand the temper
allure at which alcohol and mercury
freeze. Members of North-Pole ex-
petitions have experienced temper
atures of fifty or more degrees below
zero without suffering harm.
However. it happens not unfre-
quently that even moderately cold
weather, when the thermometer is but
few degrees below the freezing
point, causes serious ills, and some
times even fatal results. This is apt
to happen to persons who are ana.
mic, poorly fed, effeminate or mental
ly depressed. Old men, children,
anemic girls, drunkards. and people
with weak heart, are all liable to be
frost-bitten, and easily freeze to death
if they succumb to sleep while ex.
posed to intense cold. They fall into
a sort of stupor. sit down to rest, soon
fall asleep, and in most instances
never awake. For long time they
remain in condition bordering on
death; they breathe little, and the
heart makes feeble attempts to MAIN
tain the circulation of the blood
DR.. Von Nussbaum, in Popular
Science Monthly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
VALUABLE LANDS.
Where Cock1e-Burrs, Sand-Burrs ant
Tumble-Weeds Grow in Profusion.

Where Cock1e-Burrs, Sand-Burrs and
Tumble-Weeds Grow in ProfusiOn.
He was sitting in front of sod
house in Nebraska, near the Niobrara
river, smoking cob pipe and occa-
sionally pausing to whistle few bars
of Dixie as he gazed lazily but adj
miringlY at a semi-circle of dogs
stretched on the ground around him.
We drove up and inquired how far it
was to Valentine.
Dunno. stranger" he replied.
Haven't you ever been thereP"
Eyes, low I've been there
How far do you think it is. thenp"
at might be bout seven mile. then
she might be nearder ten-makes a
heap O. dif'rence what you do down
where the road forks. Say, dom want
o buy good farm. Ireckonp"
Don't believe we do"
mo, Flowed not. Seems's if cam t
never sell out"
"Where- you going when you sell
out herep''
.'Gen'pmen, shall pull back to Mis-
soory"
Cdu YOU SoOo
Cant raise nothin' on this farm
'cept cuckleburrs. That's what call
it. genuine Chuckle- Burr Home! I
got mother farm out on the fat fur
der.''
THAT must be poor er soil than
this. !"
'.Doggoned sight wus. Can't raise
al, -
Sand-Burrs Place. I got one other
farm down n earder the river"
"That seems like better location" "
90 yes, some-you can raise red
tum ble-weeds on that lapd-it's Tum-
ble-Weed Retreat; that's the. name Of
it,"
t.All for sale, are theyP'
@.Every one of 'em. Buyers can take
their choice between Tumble Weed Re-
treat Sand-Burr Place or Cuckle-
Burr Home-they all got their good
p'ints. Tumble-Weed Retreat COM
mands a good view of the river an
more muskeeters; Sand-burr Place is
level and nice, but is exposed to the
wind; Cuckle- Burr Home is sheltered
from the wind. an there's fourteen
badger holes on the back forty, an a
teller can take a dog an have piles o
sport with 'em. I'll take the Home fer
mine every time-Pm powerful on
sport Coin to shack along, air your
Well, if you see any body that wants
to buy some land of bout this d'scrip-
ton jes' send 'em out I'm gettin'
| mighty anxious to be moseyin' down
| round old Pike ag' ."-F a. Carrush
| in ChicaQo Tribune
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
SECOND CROP GLOVER.
An Excellent Pasture for Cows, But More
Especially Hogs.

An Excellent Pasture Tor Cows, But More
Especially Hogs.
The amount of growth the clover will
make after the first cutting depends
almost entirely upon the season. II
the weather turns dry but very small
growth will be made, while with
showers sufficient to keep up the ne
cessary supply of moisture. a very
strong, rapid growth will be made.
Glover makes good pasture for mich
cows and especially for hogs. Very
many follow the plan of making hay out
of the first crop and then turning in the
stock and using for pasture the bal
ance of the season. Whether this is
the best plan or not depends upon cir
cumstances, the supply of feed in the
that we have to help them if out, being
the most important item.
Clover hay, if cut at the right time
and properly cured, makes hay Of
the very best quality. and on this ac-
count is very valuable to store away
for use during the winter. Generally
it is a much easier matter to secure a
good variety of food for the stock dur
ing the summer than in the winter, and
on this account it is often desirable to
save all the clover for hay to feed out
during the cold weather. If you have
patch of sowed corn or sorghum
growing, it would certainly be prefera-
BILE to feed this out and cut and save
the second crop of clover for winter
feeding. Under ordinary conditions,
at least one good load of hay per acre
can be secured. We do not expect as
large yields for the second crop as the
first. If preferred, we can allow the
plants to mature seed, and in this way
secure supply we know to be relia-
bic.
The seed usually sells at good
price and the expense of buying seed
can, to considerable extent, be saved.
Even when the plants are allowed to
mature seed and are threshed, the
straw can be used for feed or for bed
ding the stock to a good advantage.
In either case it will be found better in
| a great many cases to allow the clover
to grow and make crop of hay rather
than use for pasture.
Glover hay either for milch cows,
sheep or hogs, during the winter,
| makes an admirable feed, and unless
you have over an average supply, it
| will be better to save for winter feed
ing rather than use green, especially
when other feed, that will answer fully
| as well, San be used at this time.-Cor.
| Farm, Field and Stocknlaaa.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

There is now living within mile
of this town. in the pine woods, says
the Kentville On. s. Sentinel. an aged
colored man by the name of Elisha
Laurence, who was on board the Ches-
apeake at the time of her encounter
with the Shannon, during the Amer
can war of 1912. This individual was
yet but an infant, whose parents were
cooks on board the ship. and, of course,
remembers nothing of the fight He,
nevertheless, seems to think that he is
entitled to some honor on account of
his presence on that memorable occa-
sion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
TRIBES OF TONQUIN.

They Live in Bamboo Huts and Are Care
less and Apathetic.
The huts of the principal tribes are
constructed of wood and built upon
piles. The walls are of braided bam-
boo, made in such manner that.
even when the windows and doors
are closed, there is little difficulty in
reading and writing within. the poor
braiding allowing the entrance of
light. The roof is also made of barh-
boo covered with palm-leaves. Not
a single nail or pin is used in the con-
struction of these houses. When a
new one has been completed the head
of the family makes grand prepare
tons to properly celebrate the event,
according to his means. Oxen are
killed. wine is drunk, pipes smoked.
and there is general rejoicing on the
part of the family and its guests. In
toxication. however, is rarely met with
on these occasions.
The interior of the hut corresponds
in simplicity with its exterior. In
order to gain admission it is necessary
to first climb the ladder suspended
from the door; before entering the
feet are bathed in a long bamboo tube
filed with water. as shoes are but little
worn. As there is no outlet for the
smoke arising from the fireplace ex-
cepting through the roof and the
crevices at the sides the room is con-
stantly filed with it. Three large
stones serve as tripod. Shelves con-
tanning rice, salt and other articles OF
food are ranged about the room.
Knives, hatchets and the indispensable
bamboo tube containing fresh water
are conveniently placed. On what
may be considered the ground floor
fowls, pigs and other domestic animals
make their home.
Rice is the principal food, and they
obtain very delicate flavor by steam.
ing it through a bamboo tube. Smok-
ing is indulged in to considerable ex
tent.
These people are, generally speak
ing, somewhat careless, apathetic anG
without fear for the morrow. Hence
they live in a sort of hand-to-moutt
fashion. combining themselves to the
cultivation of the narrow strips of land
at the foot of the mountains. Ths
fields are very small. and water is fire.
quently brought to them by means o
canals. The men work the fields will
a light plow. but often dispense ever
with that, and use harrow, the teetf
of which are made of bamboo. Or
dinarily there are two harvests, excep'
ting in certain districts. where the
winters are too severe.
The men rise at day break at all sea
sons of the year, smoke their pipes
lounge about the house for time,
then work in the fields until about ter
or eleven O. clock. when they return
for breakfast A short sleep is then
INDUCED in. The afternoon is spent
in roaming about the mountains, f1sh'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
WHAT MOTHER SAYS.

Now here's o hand-glass, let me try
I'll can this time see
Just one of all those funny things
My mother sees in me.
She says my eyes are violets-
And what she says is true
But think they are just two eyes;
Don't they look so to you?
She says my lips are cherries red,
And makes b'lieve take bite;
They never look like that to me
But mothers always right.
She says each cheek is like . rose;
And this surely know,
Inever would believe it-but
What mother says is so.
She says my teeth are shining pearls:
Now that's so very queer,
II some folks said it, why, I'd think
But then, It was mother dear.
/ only see little girl,
With hair that's rather wild,
Who has two eyes, a nose and mouth,
Like any other child.
-Lizbeth B. Gonsi,1s, TN st. Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

"A reporter dropped into prom
inent hotel to have his boots polished.
The weather was decidedly threaten
ing at the time, and as he left the
chair he said: ut is almost certain to
rain, and I shall lose my elegant ten
cent shine" ''Oh, we'll fix that all
right" said the frescoer. .Tn give
you rain check. and if you lose
your shine come back this afternoon
and will give you another. Detroit
Pree Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
PiTH AND POINT.

Men with clean shirts on never en-
gage in free fights.
To find out how old a lady is
Ask some other lady.-DanUille Breeze.
"A tussle with boarding. house
steak is now called '.bull fight.
"A cycling young man is good and
sigh-cling young woman is better. -
Nes0 HaUen Ne,us.
The blind never lead any but the
blind; they never can lead those who
have their eyes open.
An exchange says that young
lady never likes to s.give herself
away. That depends on whether or
not the right fellow asks her.-M r.
Ledger.
-Contractor-'Pve called to have
you settle for building the house. y
Owner-"rm ready to settle with you
when the house is done settling."-
Philadelphia Call
Aim high" is the Savannah News'
advice to young men. This is the
same old chestnut that the girl sprung
on the fellow who kissed her on the
chin. Nashville american.
Nothing has been done to stop the
robbing of poor immigrants at Castle
Garden yet, but an ordinance to pro-
hibit the sale of oil paintings by gas
light has just been passed in New
York. -Omaba World.
No man knows how much he
really loves a woman until she has
presented him with the worked can
vas for the sides of a natty travelling
bag. and he has paid seven or eight
dollars for having it made up.-Loso-
ell Citizen.
The coils of rope which hotel keep
ers in New York are obliged by law to
place in every room, for fre-escape,
are proving very useful to impecuni-
Gus guests, who slide down at night
without waiting for the cry of fire. -
Boston Post.
Behind the Scenes
Her appetite is delicate:
She can not eat to-day;
But see her in the pantry
Whenher beau has gone away.
Boston Courier
Change is Rest-Beggar's Wife
August why are you taking off
your wooden 1egP' -"DarL
ing, am only going to strap it on the
other foot; one gets tired of hopping
about all day long on the same -
Ha4moristische Blotter.
-Countryman Ito dentisD-'1
wouldn't pay nothin' extra for gas
Jes yank her out if it does hurt.
Dentist-''You are plucky, sir. Let
me see tho TOOTH Countryman-
"Oh, faint me that IS got the toothache;
it's my wife. She'll be here in a min
ute.''- Y Sun.
Some people claim that fellow
doesn't get any rest by going on an
excursion. as he generally works hard
a week before to get ready and then
puts in the hardest day of all when he
goes-but this is not so; an excursion
usually makes him sick abed for a
week after he gets back and that is
the time he gets his rest Dakota Bell.
Not soil alone nor sun alone
gives strength and majesty to the
sturdy oak, but also it's exposure to
the changes of the seasons and its bat
ties with the storms and winds. So
it is through hardships and well borne
trials cheerily met that man attains
to the power and dignity of his full
nature and the stability of his true
manhood. Farmer and Manufacturer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
A Natural Inquiry.

Who'll we put up for Congress this
YEAR," asked one local statesman OF
another
General Dashem. He's bound to
be elected"
s'Can he command votesP"
s.You bet he can; more than any
other man in this district
How much is he WORTH Her.
chant Traveller.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

The law requiring the placing of
ropes and fire escapes in hotels is being
generally complied with by the hotels of
York State. The expense of fitting up
an ordinary hotel. according to the re-
ouirements, is $500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29

Two friends promenading tho
street met an enormously fat woman
DO you know who she isp'' asked one.
"Oh, yes; she is the wife Of Captain x.
OF the army" Mon Dieu! who would
she be if she were the wife Of q Gen.
| eralp''
The Magnolia gazette., 1887-05-27
HAMhroN's cHvALRY0

A few papers in the State are
having a good deal to say to the
effect that Jones S. Hamilton is q
very "brave" ''chivalrous'' man.
Can any fair minded individual
conceive OF how brave, chivalrous
man could be guilty Of Draining a
fallen antagonist? This is exact
ly what this reputed braye Hamil-
ton CLAIMS to have done. It is be-
lieved that Hamilton did not brain
Editor Gambrell, but that one OF
of his henchmen did. In this
event Hamilton is liar, and nc
brave or chivalrous man will lie.
We defy any and all of the pa
pers that are trying to make a he
no Of the midnight assassin, to
name a single instance of false.
hood and bravery or brutality and
chivalry being combined in one
person. Let one case be gwen
before the people are treated tc
any more slush and arraut false.
hood about the s'bravery ant
chivalry" of this man--Hamilton
The Magnolia gazette., 1887-05-27
COL. W. ]. POLLARD.

AUGUSTA, GA, Jan. 4, 1887.
Swift's Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
DEAR SIRs;-For ten years my
blood was In a very bad condition,
evincing its III humors in a chronic
swollen and violently red nose,
and innumerable boils that fire.
queutly appeared on my face
looked as il | had a severe cas-,
OF erysipelas.
Some time ago l determined tc
try S. s. S. as / had heard SC
much of the Specific as aSblood
purifier. After using six larg,
bottles of S. S. S. / was entirely
cured. The violent deep red col.
or left my nose, the hoils disap.
pered permanently, and my gen.
eral health was built up wonder
fully. | regard S. S. S. not only
as the best blood purifier. but also
as the finest tonic for reduced
constitution and general debilit,
that | know Of. Yours truly,
w. J. PoLpARp.
The Magnolia gazette., 1887-05-27
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

AT a meeting of the Indepen-
dent Prohibition Union of Osyka,
held this day, May 22ond 1887,
the following preamble and resolu.
tions were offered and unanimous
ly adopted.
WHEREAS. God in his proyi-
dence saw good to remove from
us on the 10th. inst by death
Willie Moore, a worthy member
of this organization. therefore be
RESOLVED. That in his death,
We have lost a valuable aid in the
Temperance work, and the society
has lost a noble and virtuous
young man, whose life was ex.
emplary and worthy the emula-
ton of all.
RESOLVED. That during this
time of moral obliquity, where
the vile of all classes are combin-
ing TO promote, and to perpetuate
lntemperance, sensuallty, regard
less of all ties, and all interest.
The loss of so noble and virtu-
Gus a young man as Willie Moore,
The Magnolia gazette., 1887-05-27

intention. 1t is not our idea that
the great majority of saloon-keep-
ers are in sympathy or in league
with actual murderers. We do
believe, however, that there is no
class of men in the country which
includes so many vicious, idle and
worthless characters, so many
hardened ami desperate brutes,
so many enemies of society, the
state and the church as the class
engaged in the liquor traffic. The
saloon breeds criminals as natural
Iy as the slime and rottenness of
a cesspool breeds the poisonous
fungus. The very atmosphere
of the saloon is fatal to virtue and
pure morals. Obscenity, profani-
ty, ribald songs and vicious gossin
are as common to these places as
the clink of glasses and the gurgle
of the rum-bottle. It'is just as
impossible to associate anything
pure or manly, elevating or ennob-
ling, with the business of grog-
selling as it is to think of these
things in connection with the
trade of thieves or pirates. 1t is
a business for which the country
has nothing to hope for but every
thing to fear. Considered as an
industry the manufacture and sale
of Intoxicating drink has all the
weight of fact against it. All the
employment it affords, all the
capital it engages, all the revenue
it supplies, are as a cipher against
the actual and verifable cost of its
maintenance. For every dollar
that it adds to the wealth of the
country on the one hand it draws
from it thousand on the other.
It is the foe of every other in-
dustry; as it increases others must
decrease; the ratio OF it's growth
is the ratio of decline for every
thing affiliated with it from the
most intimate to the remotest de-
gree. No, the liquor dealers as a
class are not assassins; but the
liquor traffic is the working of
death for those who sell, for those
who drink-death to the morals,
the virtue, the happiness the pros
perity Of the people.-[New York
Observer.